November 2008 Archives

What a tragedy Michael Jackson did not make it to Britain to contest the High Court action brought against him by Sheik Abdullah Bin Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa.

The second son of the King of Bahrain claimed that the King of Cosmetic Surgery owed him £4.6 million.

Sadly, the action was settled out of court.

Which means that Mr Jackson avoided the need to drop in just when we needed him most.

When I first heard that a health authority had attempted to force a 13 years old child to have a heart transplant I was appalled.

And that was before I knew anything about Hannah Jones.

Now that it has become clear that Hannah is a remarkable, intelligent, courageous and articulate young woman the sense of outrage has simply escalated.

Teenage girls who watch a lot of sexual activity on TV are twice as likely to get pregnant as those who don't.

This is the finding of a major research project in the United States which studied 2,000 youngsters aged between 12 and 17.

Researchers identified 23 programmes popular with teenagers which had high levels of sexual content, including Sex In The City and Friends.

By the end of their three year project a quarter of those who watched a lot of these shows ended up pregnant. In the group which did not watched less the figure was just 12 per cent.